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May 3rd, 2019

Meteorologist Grace Legge of the Australian Bureau of Meteorology became a Jedi to forecast the weather for Star Wars Day. Let's see how many Star Wars references she can squeeze into about 80 seconds....

Will you be having a party for Star Wars Day, or are you just going to use it as an excuse to see a movie or two? In case you want to see all the available Star Wars movies, Den of Geek has a streaming...

<p>What defines us living organisms? The question is an important one to ponder since we are making rapid progress into AI territory and synthetic bioengineering such that the lines between living and inani...

<p>Much of what we know about the known universe were all gathered through a lot of testing and theorizing, doing the scientific method with diligence and creativity, thinking outside the box to put the pie...

National parks walk a fine line between preserving nature and facilitating access for people to enjoy the park. Then when a wildfire comes along, that work goes into overdrive. Dr. Martha Witter is a fire ecologist for t...

The most common form of dementia is Alzheimer’s disease. In a nutshell, Alzheimer’s is a disease where you forget things, until it comes to a point where you even forget to breathe (loss of bodily functions)....

<blockquote>There are no cardinal directions to tell where I am from. I am from everywhere. I am from Sudan, Chad, France, and the United States, and a little city called Utica, New York....I am from Masali...

Schrodinger's Cat Enamel Pin SetAre you still trying to wrap your head around Schrodinger's cat thought experiment and how it applied to the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics?The paradox of that poor hypothe...

<p>Living in the deep sea some 4500 meters deep would prove to be difficult for amphipods — tiny shrimplike crustaceans found in most aquatic ecosystems. We know that the deeper the water, the higher...

A man gets off a boat. He walks into a restaurant and orders albatross soup. He takes one sip... pulls out a gun, and shoots himself to death. So...why did he kill himself?It's not a true story, and while it is a riddle,...

<p>Marion Stokes has been recording bits of television shows ranging from sitcoms, news reports, and documentaries non-stop for over 30 years, from 1975 to her death at 2012. In 1975, she got a Betamax tape...

<p>With the help of medical technology and sanitation procedures, surgeries and amputations these days aren't as frightening to undergo. Anesthetics and morphine can numb our senses to soothe the pain so th...

<p>Talking to a real mafia boss or gangster might make anyone's legs shake and their voice tremble with nervous excitement. It must have been thrilling for Dylan Struzan, being face to face with one of the...

<p>Controlling disease-carrying pests is a taxing, labor-intensive, expensive, and highly complicated process the results of which aren't always effective in reducing the population. In fact, <a href=&qu...

<p>Various natural processes in the environment work together in synergy to keep the flow of life intact. The natural order maintains the balance that holds ecosystems together. Each one in the chain gives...